Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Here I make the case that entrepreneurs must stay focused on the prize, not the doubters. Entrepreneurs. ” **. It can be one of the strongest motivators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. He was also an undergraduate of the one place that I think is cranking out some of the best young entrepreneurs and investors these days – Wharton.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 8, 2021

Since launching its first Los Angeles-based startup accelerator in 2014, Boulder, Colo.-headquartered headquartered company Techstars Central has worked with dozens of local entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/19/2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” We explained what we felt the core values of a firm of the future needed to uphold: Provide real operational insights to entrepreneurs (the days of being “money men” are gone). Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

As an angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed than energized by the abundance of challenges they see in building their startup. Investors and strategic partners look for entrepreneurs who can execute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. There is no room in this realm for negativism, excuses, or lack of confidence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage Angel investors. It’s time to think again that the domain of entrepreneurs is only for the under-35 crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. percent to 23.4

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, But it’s very easy to be flattered into “here’s why we want YOU as an investor” by entrepreneurs and earlier-stage investors alike.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

He has previously founded such companies as Doppelgames, Syyn Labs, and been on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; he also happens to be the son of famed inventor and entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell (Atari, Chuck E Cheese). The group hopes to start a tour starting in Spring 2014 if it reaches its goals. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. Only one component of running a business is managing technology, but it is a critical component, so no entrepreneur can afford to ignore it or totally delegate it. Are you there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Investors want entrepreneurs to be aggressive, but don’t make projections that make you look like the next Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. Very young entrepreneurs get to “touch and feel” the results, and can experiment to their heart’s content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. For every entrepreneur, I recommend first a personal assessment of your goals and strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market-research data. Successful entrepreneurs get the job done quickly, without breaking the bank.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. With over 700 certified iTechs nationwide and abroad, the company''s 2014 revenues are rumored to surpass $30 million. Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard. Techpreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/21/2014. business disruptive technology entrepreneur innovation startup' Who knows, your imitation with innovation may turn out to be the bigger than the disruptive technology of your dreams.

Technology 103

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We sat down with Kelly ahead of the announcement to chat about the new fund, why they think military veterans are particularly well suited as startup entrepreneurs, why the two went from organizing individual deals for funding to a formal fund, and more. We deployed a little over $10 million from the syndicate since 2014.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Norgard had been founder of messaging startup Chill, the maker of Tappy, which was acquired by Tinder in 2014. Norgard has been a longtime Los Angeles startup entrepreneur. READ MORE>>.

Startup 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. entrepreneur funding venture capital' The good news is that both of these are looking up these days. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Company co-founder Jonathan Zweig has already had one hit as a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur. Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. Seriously, dude?

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. entrepreneur revenue startup user count' If you are in it for the long run, dont forget the basic business principle that if you lose money on every customer, you cant make it up in volume.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Match Group , the parent company of Los Angeles-based online dating app developer Tinder , said on Monday that it has named Jim Lanzone--former President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital--as CEO of Tinder. He also has been on the board of Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com since 2014.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. I want to invest in entrepreneurs that have the capacity to be number one at whatever they are doing, and do it within our skill base, which is direct-to-consumer. I love entrepreneurs.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Incubator Class Artificial Inteligence Startup 108

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Paddy Cosgrave was a young entrepreneur in Dublin and a couple of years after the crash was talking with a mate of his who had a brand new hotel opening but had no clue how he was going to attract visitors. It will not. It was then that I learned why Paddy is so good at his job. I am fairly public about my dislike for attending conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

While this is temporarily a good thing for entrepreneurs it will turn sour when we go through the next inevitable downturn. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster. We are 5 years into a bull market and all economic markets run in cycles.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The UC System said the new fund will be led by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Randadive. The new fund comes as a result of a September 2014 decision by the UC Board of Regents, which approved of the concept of investing in companies in such areas as life sciences, technology, energy, agriculture and materials.

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Funding Venture Capital Invest Capital 100

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 25, 2013

In 2014, I will Think and Grow Rich. Ferocious and relentless entrepreneur. I’ve also been very busy with my business ventures. 2013 was an interesting year. I woke up on Christmas morning in typical fashion and this happened: To the moon, Eric Greenspan. Creator of mind blowing customer experiences. Soft hearted, strong willed.

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Entrepreneur Custom Customer Company 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2016

Mobrem is a serial entrepreneur, who was the founder of Lettuce, which he sold to Intuit in 2014; Shulem is a 21-year old Mac software developer. The startup--founded by Spencer Shulem and Raad Mobrem--lets users track tasks, get reminders, and even collaborate on lists with other people. Name of the angels were not announced.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Software Development Entrepreneur Software 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Zweig is a serial entrepreneur , and was the founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014). AppOnboard plans to expand in Europe and Asia, with its first effort an office expansion in Seoul, using the new funds. READ MORE>>.

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